SYG 2000 Chapter 1-3 Test 2023 /31
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Sociology - -Systematic study of society
-Sociological Perspective - -A way of looking at the world through a sociological lens.
Helps us to see the strange in the familiar. Seeing personal choice in social context.
-Auguste Comte - -Thought the major goal of sociology was to understand how society
operates. Proposed the idea of positivism- a way of understanding based on science.
-Emile Durkheim - -Interested in the social factors that bond and hold people together.
Studied the correlation between social isolation and suicide. Identified social
integration- the degree to which people are tied to their social group, as a key social
factor in suicide.
-Structural Functionalism - -Society is viewed of an ordered system of interrelated
parts, or structures, which are the social institutions that make up society
-Conflict theory: Karl Marx - -Sees social conflict as the basis of society and social
change. People are competing for scarce resources. Types of inequalities: class, race,
gender, age, sexual orientation.
-Bourgeoisie - -Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production
-Proletariat - -Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own
the means of production
-Class conflict - -Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers
Questions and Answers \ Solved.
Sociology - -Systematic study of society
-Sociological Perspective - -A way of looking at the world through a sociological lens.
Helps us to see the strange in the familiar. Seeing personal choice in social context.
-Auguste Comte - -Thought the major goal of sociology was to understand how society
operates. Proposed the idea of positivism- a way of understanding based on science.
-Emile Durkheim - -Interested in the social factors that bond and hold people together.
Studied the correlation between social isolation and suicide. Identified social
integration- the degree to which people are tied to their social group, as a key social
factor in suicide.
-Structural Functionalism - -Society is viewed of an ordered system of interrelated
parts, or structures, which are the social institutions that make up society
-Conflict theory: Karl Marx - -Sees social conflict as the basis of society and social
change. People are competing for scarce resources. Types of inequalities: class, race,
gender, age, sexual orientation.
-Bourgeoisie - -Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production
-Proletariat - -Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own
the means of production
-Class conflict - -Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers
